Improved clothes-wringer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. `JOHN E. DANIELS AND GEORGE S. KENDALL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED CLOTH Es-WRINGER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,810, dated July 8, 1862.

To all whom L' may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN E. DANIELs and GEORGE S. KENDALL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Clothes Vringing Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this s'pecication, in which- Eigure l is a vertical section through our improved machine; Fig. 2, a view of one of the standards and our improved clamp.

The object ofour present invention is to produce a clothes-wringing machine which is simple and durable in its construction and in which the pressure of the springs is so applied to each bearing of the upper roll which rises and falls that when an article is pressed between the two rolls A and B which is thicker on one side or toward one end of the rolls than the other the pressure ot" the springs may be continued and applied to both sidesof the article being pressed, notwithstanding that one end of the roll is raised higher than the other; and our invention consists in the clotheswringing machine which welwill now describe in such terms that others skilled in the art may understand and use our invention.

In the said drawings, A A are two standards, which are clamped to the tub or other support in a manner which will be presently described. The lower roll, B, to the shaft of which is attached'a crank, O, has the bearings of its shaft in these two standards. The shaft of the upper roll, D, has -its bearings in two blocks or boxes, a, which are free to of its length on the bar E with a block of rubber, I, interposed, (a rod, j', keeping the rubber in place.) A thumb-screw,K,which works in the top bar or cross-piece, F, bears on the middle ofthe upperspring, G. By this screw the requisite amount of pressure may be applied to the roll D through the springs G and H.

It is evident that, as the pressure of these springs is applied to the middle of the bar E, which pivots on the rubber bearing I, the roll D may be raised higher at one end than at the "other,and the pressure will still be applied throughout its whole lengt-h. The bar E and springs G and H, being made of wood, are not liable to rust and stain the clothes; but metal springs properly coated may be used.

Various kinds ofelamps have been employed to secure the standards A A to the tub or other vessel to which the wringing-machine is to be attached; but as the tub which is generally used is circular in form, and it is desirable not to mar and'brnise its edge, we have adopted the following-described attachment: To one side of each standard A or A is permanently attaehed a leg, M, with a space between its lower end, f, and the end g of the standard, as shown in Fig. 2, the lower end of the standard being rounded to prevent bruising the tub. A pad or shoe, O, (which is rounded on the side'which comes in contact with the tub,) has "two pins, h, attached to it, which slide in holes in the end of the leg M, the pad being pressed away from the leg by a thumb-screw, P. This permits rthe machine to be clamped to the tub without the binding-screw I bruising the edge of the tub.

W'e do not claim the rubber bearing or block I as a spring, as a wooden block would answer for a bearing on which the bar E could pivot.

J. E. DANIELS. GEORGE S. KENDALL.

VV-itnesses: i

THos. R. Rouen, P. E. TEsorrEMAeHER. 

